Shumway v. Payne

In August 1991, a jury found Alexis Shumway guilty of the first degree premeditated murder of her grandmother. Ms. Shumway has taken advantage of her right to pursue appellate review and to collaterally attack *387her conviction in the courts of this state, as well as in federal court. She has most recently filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington. In that proceeding, Respondent Alice Payne, Superintendent of the Washington Corrections Center for Women (hereafter referred to as State), argued that two of the claims…